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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What questions do they ask?

Questions about the student? The school?

Is it a back and forth between the student and the interviewers or just a Q&A from the panel to the student?

If the parent interview is just 5 minutes, what do they ask the parents?[/quote]

My child applied and was accepted last year. Chose to go elsewhere, however. Questions asked of the child included why he/she wanted to go to Walls, how he/she handled stress, and what books he/she had read recently. Parent questions were about child's strengths, how he/she would deal with a large workload, and reasons the parents wanted child to attend Walls.

Good luck to your child.[/quote]

Same situation here and same questions. Our child is now in 11th and chose to go elsewhere. The interview panel for both our child's interview and our parent interview consisted of 2 students and 1 teacher.

Apparently there is a lot of emphasis at Walls at all stages on dressing appropriately for presentations, etc. Lots of teenagers need that advice and support, so I don't think it's a bad thing, although I wouldn't pass that "test" myself since we can and do wear jeans at my office.

Agree with the lack of transparency being a crazy thing for a public school. I have no idea how they get away with it year after year.

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I think the perennial racial conspiracy theorizing on this board about SWW is really sick and unfortunate.  People seem to forget that the interview panel is made up of students, including the vastly over-represented white demographic.    Do people really think that the huge number of white student interviewers get instructions to gerrymander admissions and yet manage year after year to keep that a secret from their parents and the media (and social media)? Really?  That's a rather pathetic conspiracy theory.

I agree that the lack of transparency and the general attitude at SWW (we are great, so we don't have to explain ourselves or communicate clearly why anyone would want to go here) and extremely off-putting.  DS applied, was admitted and chose to go elsewhere for that reason.[/quote]

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